Florian Heidenreichhttps://fheidenreich.de/
Recent content on Florian HeidenreichHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usWed, 14 Nov 2018 21:03:49 +0100Cycles 1https://fheidenreich.de/articles/cycles-1/
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 21:03:49 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/cycles-1/The phone rings, another alarm: „It’s urgent, you have to come immediately!“. Then, after hours, the sense of alarm vanishes, the urgency is gone and exhaustion settles in. The cycle recharges. Until next time, when the phone rings.
Or: create change and step out of the cycle.Interpretationhttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/interpretation/
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:21:49 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/interpretation/It’s quite difficult to not fall into the trap of interpretation. If something happens, it’s only natural (or at least automatic) to make sense out of it and put in context to the past and the future. Why did it happen and what are the implications of it? This kind of rationalization creates a feeling of security, at least stability, and control. When in fact, it’s really difficult to know.The Is and the Isn’thttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/is-isnt/
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:01:49 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/is-isnt/For many of us, daily routines – interrupted by specific outstanding events – form how our weeks, months and years look alike. Time can pass without any specific difference of experience, except of the order of our repetitive tasks and the topics we discuss in our minds.
This creates a sensation of dullness, monotony and repetition and often comes with the effect of having a fixed point of reference towards life – ideas of what can be expected from life and how life treats us.Bad Moodshttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/bad-moods/
Sun, 11 Nov 2018 16:32:11 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/bad-moods/Where do bad moods come from?
From waiting. From repeating a fruitless conversation in the mind. From indecisiveness. From comparing with others. From postponing feeling emotions. From not acting. From forcing oneself to something. From not moving. From staying in a contagious environment. Once it’s clear, it’s fairly easy to change.Decidinghttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/deciding/
Sat, 10 Nov 2018 12:39:00 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/deciding/„Not sure if it would be what I want.“ „But I prefer less weight and a bigger screen for my shiny new device.“ „Should I stay with this woman I have fabulous sex with, or go back to the woman I feel at home with?“ „I’d start from zero if I’d move to another country.“
All those are simplified or condensed from conversations I had within the last week. The question behind all is: „How can I know if I’m making the right decision?Saying Sorryhttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/saying-sorry/
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 10:26:56 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/saying-sorry/It’s apparently not so easy.
I’ve just received an apology that didn’t feel like it at all. In fact, it was a bunch of excuses that were used trying to justify unjust behavior. Instead of coming up with a list of things that put you in good light or are trying to manipulate the other to understand you more, just understand why you need to apologize and do so.
It’s super easy to jump into explanation mode when something else is needed.Creativityhttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/creativity/
Thu, 08 Nov 2018 07:11:00 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/creativity/Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination — and perhaps more importantly — creativity is the power to act. Only through our actions can expectations for change become reality, and only then can our purported creativity build a new foundation, and only then is it possible to draw out human civilization.Problemshttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/problems/
Wed, 07 Nov 2018 09:16:25 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/problems/When I’m stressed, I’m sometimes observing myself, wishing for a time were all problems simply vanish, where everything is eventually okay.
THIS IS AN IRRATIONAL THOUGHT WITHOUT ANY TRUTH!
This thought is in itself contrary to life. What does okay mean in this context? It means that nothing unplanned, nothing that needs my attention, nothing that challenges my current comfort will ever happen again. This I don’t wish for. Life is full of obstacles and there is an okayness in it, that can’t be questioned.Learning and Knowinghttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/learning-knowing/
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 08:55:41 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/learning-knowing/We are born as creatures that are able to learn. From our first day on earth we have the ability to constantly adapt to what is and to increase our abilities to perceive, to move through life, to affect and be affected by life. Learning in this regard always implies something new. We learn to walk, to speak and think and to pursue our will – all of which we do not know beforehand, but what is in our potential to try and experiment with.Questionshttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/questions/
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 09:12:17 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/questions/Here are seven questions to ask that are taming the advice monkey:
What&rsquo;s on your mind? And what else? What&rsquo;s the real challenge here for you? What do you want? How can I help? If you&rsquo;re saying yes to this, what are you saying no to? What was most useful for you? Taken from the book &ldquo;The Coaching Habit&rdquo; by Michael Bungay Stanier.Attention Economyhttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/attention-economy/
Sun, 04 Nov 2018 10:03:49 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/attention-economy/In a conversation with Sam Harris on the Waking Up podcast, journalist Matt Taibbi mentions how the role of journalism has shifted into the realms of entertainment, driven by the sheer quantity of news out there. It&rsquo;s one instance of how attention gets trapped. And the span to hold the attention gets shorter and shorter.
Herbert A. Simon, nobel-laureate in 1978, coined the term of &ldquo;attention economics&rdquo; when he wroteCompound Effectshttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/compound-effects/
Sat, 03 Nov 2018 10:39:05 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/compound-effects/I’ve first learned about the compound effect at school, when our teacher explained how compound interest works and how it’s calculated. It was presented as something which is inherently difficult to understand, hard to grasp by our minds, but very powerful when applied to large amounts of money. It seemed mysterious and wasn’t very interesting to me at that time — mainly because I had only a few deutsche marks weekly pocket money and no bank account to put the concept into action.Personality Mythhttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/personality-myth/
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:47:10 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/personality-myth/You’re probably not what you think you are. In the episode The Personality Myth of the Invisibilia Podcast, marshmallow-test-professor Walter Mischel notes that we as humans are &ldquo;fundamentally flexible&rdquo;.
The core of his work is &ldquo;showing the potential for human beings to not be the victims of their biographies – not their biological biographies, not their social biographies – and to show, in great detail, the many ways in which people can change what they become and how they think.Going Hugohttps://fheidenreich.de/articles/going-hugo/
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 19:59:10 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/articles/going-hugo/Today I&rsquo;m starting to use Hugo for this website. I&rsquo;ve made a small theme using Bootstrap and created some custom templates.
Being able to write in plain Markdown, using text files I can put in version control, not having to backup a database and using Go made me switch.
Hey Hugo.What I'm doing nowhttps://fheidenreich.de/now/
Sat, 23 Dec 2017 08:25:06 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/now/I’m in Dresden, Germany and currently focusing my attention on these things:
Growing and Shaping an Indie Development Business I’m currently working on all things around my Freeware program Mp3tag. Lately, I’ve started a newsletter and built a free email course.
I’ve also started a side-project with a friend and we’ll see where it’ll lead us – I’ve learned Go (the programming language, I also like the table game) for this project which is a good experience.Deep Work by Cal Newporthttps://fheidenreich.de/books/deep-work/
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 18:39:25 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/deep-work/Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
„Although he had many patients who relied on him, Jung was not shy about taking time off.“ Deep work, though a burden to prioritize, was crucial for his goal of changing the world.
„If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels.Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emersonhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/self-reliance/
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:37:00 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/self-reliance/In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.Meditations by Marcus Aureliushttps://fheidenreich.de/books/meditations/
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:28:48 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/meditations/It is not objects and events but the interpretations we place on them that are the problem. Our duty is therefore to exercise stringent control over the faculty of perception, with the aim of protecting our mind from error.
People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.
The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Wattshttps://fheidenreich.de/books/wisdom-insecurity/
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:25:36 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/wisdom-insecurity/I have always been fascinated by the law of reversed effort. Sometimes I call it the “backwards law.” When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink you float. When you hold your breath you lose it.
For if all is relative, if life is a torrent without form or goal in whose flood absolutely nothing save change itself can last, it seems to be something in which there is “no future” and thus no hope.Essentialism by Greg McKeownhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/essentialism/
Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:22:17 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/essentialism/The basic value proposition of Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.
It is about pausing constantly to ask, “Am I investing in the right activities?”
Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done. It doesn’t mean just doing less for the sake of less either.When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrönhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/when-things-fall-apart/
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:17:22 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/when-things-fall-apart/Fear is a universal experience.
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.
Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness.
No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear.The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Mansonhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/not-giving-fucks/
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:11:35 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/not-giving-fucks/The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it’s giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important.
The Feedback Loop from Hell.
The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.
The Backwards Law – the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place.Flinch by Julien Smithhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/flinch/
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:08:43 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/flinch/This book is about how to stop flinching. It’s about facing pain.
The X is the flinch. The flinch is your real opponent, and information won’t help you fight it. It’s behind every unhappy marriage, every hidden vice, and every unfulfilled life. Behind the flinch is pain avoidance, and dealing with pain demands strength you may not think you have.
Behind every act you’re unable to do, fear of the flinch is there, like a puppet master, steering you off course.Show Your Work by Austin Kleonhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/show-your-work/
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 18:05:58 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/show-your-work/You don’t really find an audience for your work; they find you. But it’s not enough to be good. In order to be found, you have to be findable. I think there’s an easy way of putting your work out there and making it discoverable while you’re focused on getting really good at what you do.
Brian Eno refers to “scenius.” Under this model, great ideas are often birthed by a group of creative individuals—artists, curators, thinkers, theorists, and other tastemakers—who make up an “ecology of talent.Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holidayhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/ego-enemy/
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:43:45 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/ego-enemy/Ego is an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Arrogance. Self-centered ambition.
Ego is the enemy of what you want and of what you have: Of mastering a craft. Of real creative insight. Of working well with others. Of building loyalty and support. Of longevity. Of repeating and retaining your success.
Practice seeing yourself with a little distance, cultivating the ability to get out of your own head. Detachment is a sort of natural ego antidote.Impressumhttps://fheidenreich.de/imprint/
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